Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci
Author: Martin Kemp
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2007-10-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0191622605

This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world is now widely recognized as the classic treatment of Leonardo's art, science, and thought, giving an unparalleled insight into the broadening and deepening of Leonardo's intellect and vision throughout his artistic career. Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo, takes us on a journey through the whole span of the great man's career. From his early training in Florence, through masterpieces such as The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, to the work of Leonardo's last years, this book gives a fully integrated picture of his artistic, scientific, and technological achievements. Generously illustrated, and now including a new introductory chapter setting Leonardo's work in its historical context, this fully updated new edition provides an unparalleled insight into the marvellous works of this central figure in western art.

Leonardo

Leonardo
Author: Serge Bramly
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 521
Release: 1995-03-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0140231757

"A considerable work of assimilative scholarship and common sense...races along merrily."—The Boston Globe A lively biography of the high genius of the renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci French writer Serge Bramly's classic work of biography portrays Leonard da Vinci as a genius torn by inner conflicts. Using contemporary sources including Leonardo's notebooks and annotated erotic drawings, he presents a complete portrait of the man as well as his genius.

Leonardo Da Vinci's Elements of the Science of Man

Leonardo Da Vinci's Elements of the Science of Man
Author: Kenneth D. Keele
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2014-05-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 148327747X

Leonardo Da Vinci's Elements of the Science of Man describes how Da Vinci integrates his mechanical observations and experiments in mechanics into underlying principles. This book is composed of 17 chapters that highlight the principles underlying Da Vinci's research in anatomical studies. Considerable chapters deal with Leonardo's scientific methods and the mathematics of his pyramidal law, as well as his observations on the human and animal movements. Other chapters describe the artist's anatomical approach to the mechanism of the human body, specifically the physiology of vision, voice, music, senses, soul, and the nervous system. The remaining chapters examine the mechanism of the bones, joints, respiration, heart, digestion, and urinary and reproductive systems.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1987
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Galileo’s Thinking Hand

Galileo’s Thinking Hand
Author: Horst Bredekamp
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3110539217

Contemporary biographies of Galilei emphasize, in several places, that he was a masterful draughtsman. In fact, Galilei studied at the art academy, which is where his friendship with Ludovico Cigoli developed, who later became the official court artist. The book focuses on this formative effect – it tracks Galilei’s trust in the epistemological strength of drawings. It also looks at Galilei’s activities in the world of art and his reflections on art theory, ending with an appreciation of his fame; after all, he was revered as a rebirth of Michelangelo. For the first time, this publication collects all aspects of the appreciation of Galilei as an artist, contemplating his art not only as another facet of his activities, but as an essential element of his research.

Leonardo's Notebooks

Leonardo's Notebooks
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1603763376

Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts. Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man -- is a perennial source of fascination. His astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about both the natural and man-made world influenced his numerous works of art, theories, and sentiments -- all of which were kept in his voluminous notebooks. This book is a collection of da Vinci's intricately detailed artistic and intellectual pursuits, and highlights the classic pieces of art he produced in connection with his writings. Leonardo's Notebooks provides a fascinating look into da Vinci's most private world, and sorts his wide range of interests into subjects such as human figures, light and shade, perspective and visual perception, anatomy, botany and landscape, geography, the physical sciences and astronomy, architecture, inventions and so much more. Exploring this image-filled book is as close to reading da Vinci's diaries as we can get. Organized and curated by art historian H. Anna Suh, she provides fascinating commentary and insight into the material, making Leonardo's Notebooks an exquisite single-volume compendium celebrating his enduring brilliance.

Leonardo’s Fables

Leonardo’s Fables
Author: Giuditta Cirnigliaro
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2022-12-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004527192

An exploration of the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo’s fables to investigate their relationship with illustrations and scientific studies.